Thankfully, Baltimore will finally use technology for something useful

Priorities, indeed. High-tech garbage cans are coming to Baltimore:

New city-wide trash cans! Each can be tied to an address/can be tracked/don't "borrow" anyone's can! @BaltimoreDPW pic.twitter.com/JVjCWd0rwJ

— Stephanie (SRB) (@MayorSRB) March 1, 2016

Big Brother meets Big Sanitation!

Mayor Rawlings-Blake was on hand to help distribute the new trash cans this morning:

.@MayorSRB & @BaltimoreDPW distribute new #Baltimore trash cans in #PennNorth #ReservoirHill #StrongerNeighborhoods pic.twitter.com/PWXjWa0ivV

— Erick Ferris (@erick_ferris) March 1, 2016

The city will issue 170,000 of the chipped cans in total:

Some of the 170,000 cans that are going to new homes to keep Baltimore neighborhoods clean. pic.twitter.com/L0mR3qADvB

— BaltimoreDPW (@BaltimoreDPW) March 1, 2016

The Baltimore Sun reports “the cans will remain the city’s property and must be left at the residence when the property owner or renter moves out.” The city hopes the high-tech cans pay for themselves “with savings to the rat abatement program and from workers’ compensation claims.”

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